Collection record · Japan
Chūjō Noh Mask
A cypress-wood Noh mask whose museum record names Genkyu Michinaga and specifies three pigment colours.
- Maker
- Genkyu Michinaga
- Culture
- Japan
- Place / collection
- Asian Art collection, The Met
- Date
- 18th century
- Materials
- Cypress wood with white, black and red pigments
- Object ID
- 1993.341.2 · API 45493
Editorial note
What the record supports
When a maker is documented, it belongs on the label; when no maker is documented, “unknown” is evidence of a gap, not an invitation to invent one.
We reproduce the published culture and place fields from the museum. We do not use resemblance to identify an unrecorded object, and we do not add ceremonial meaning without an object-specific source.
Image & source
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Image: Public Domain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access. Catalogue data: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Current collection page ↗
Institutional byline: Mask & Craft Archive Editorial Desk
Published: 25 August 2026
Last checked: 30 August 2026